Nothing plain about this Jayne

Jayne Mansfield, husband Mickey Hargitay and the University of Houston’s Gloria Hunt gather at Houston International Airport for a brief visit before heading to Corpus Christi for Buccaneer Days, April 1958.

Looking through our photo archive, I came across dozens of photos of actress and former Playboy playmate Jayne Mansfield. Seems she came through Houston a few times in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

At least one of her visits involved charity work. For example, a 1960 stop helped raise money for the Houston Center for Blind Children.

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When looking at their daugther on Law and Order, Mariska Hargitay, at first, she didn’t look like any of her parents. But, looking at these pics, she looks like her mother, except for Mariska is a brunette. Mariska looks like her mother Jayne in the photo with Eva. Isn’t it something, she only needed 6 more months to get her degree? What a beautiful woman she was.

After closely studying the photo (I shouldn’t tell you how long) of Jayne Mansfield kissing that old coot in the uniform while holding her dogs, it made me reconsider the true origin of the phrase; “You lucky dog!”